Sigma College of Pharmacy, Ludhiana

Sigma College of Pharmacy located in Ludhiana was founded in 2018 and is still another young minded college which focuses on the field of pharmacy at Punjab, India. This affiliated college is situated at Gill Road near Palm Enclave and it has AICTE approval which stands for All India Council for Technical Education that keeps an eye on the quality standard of technical education in India.

These two are the key pharmacy courses offered by the institute in which a total of 60 student intake is allowed in the two programmes offered. Sigma College of Pharmacy has a strong team of 16 faculty members hence a small student to faculty ratio, meaning students are likely to get individual attention from their teachers.

Sigma College of Pharmacy has many facilities that help in the learning process of the students as they study towards their degrees. As for the core of academic offers there is a comparatively large library containing more than 5 000 books dealing with different aspects of nursing and other sectors of education. This vast list is specially useful in helping students work on their pharmaceutical courses.

In addition to conventional teachings, to enhance practical experiences and to make up the deficiency of pharmacy labs in the college, departmental laboratories have also been developed by the college for the students to gain important practical experiences required for the field.

Carefully assessing the needs of the diverse students, Sigma College of Pharmacy provides hostels for boys and girls to improve students’living condition in case they want stay in the college hostel. In as far as academic programmes are concerned, Sigma College of Pharmacy provides two main programmes in the sphere of pharmacy. The institute offers the D. Pharma as a two year full-time programme and B.

Pharma as a four year full time programme. Both courses admit 60 students each as approved by the institute in order to maintain quality education alongside ensured class sizes that are reasonably small. This type of educational programmes intended to prepare students for successful job experience in the pharmaceutical industry or continued education in the desired area.

The admission process in general at Sigma College of Pharmacy is kept uncomplicated to ensure that intending pharmacy students can do it easily. Sigma college of pharmacy Ludhiana is a developing pharmacy college in terms of educational institution in the field of pharmacy education and training.

However, the college is relatively young, having begun only in 2018; however, it has already built some facilities and approved by the AICTE. As the institute expands in the future, it is capable of contributing to the needs of advanced pharmaceutical education in the region to meet future national needs for pharmaceutical graduates to meet future demands in the profession of pharmacy.